[187] in Project_DB
Re: arachne server certificate expired.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Thu Aug 14 11:18:59 1997
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU
From: brlewis@MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Date: 14 Aug 1997 11:18:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike Barker's message of Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:51:56 EDT
What is the e-mail address for reporting arachne server outages anyway?
Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU> writes:
> What I don't understand is that I tried it (windows95) and got
> the same message--but it went ahead and got a connection and
> showed me the data from the database.
There is no mathematical reason why the server's public and private keys
should cease to work on the expiration date. It's up to the client
program to decide whether to continue using it or not.
Anyway, I've never installed a server certificate myself, but I do have
two items of prior knowledge: (1) You have to request one from jis for
it to be signed by the MIT Certificate Authority (mitCA). (2)
Configuration files for arachne's web server are in /var/https/conf
I found the location of the certificate with the following commands:
cd /var/https/conf
grep -n -i cert *.conf
One of the lines returned was:
SSLCertificateFile /var/ssl/certs/arachne.pem
So that's where the certificate goes once you get it from jis.
--
Bruce R. Lewis <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
MIT Information Systems <URL:http://web.mit.edu/brlewis/www/>
